Slaughter of the African Elephants

In the article "Slaughter of the African Elephants" by Samanta Strindberg and Fiona Maisels talks about how elephants are getting treated bad and getting killed because people are selling their tasks for money. The article also stated that the elephants are starting to decreasing.

In the article had stated, "A staggering 62 percent vanished from central African african between 2002 and 2011 , according to a study we have just published with 60 other scientists in the journal PL0S one. It was the largest such study ever conducted in the central African forests, where elephants are being poached out of existence for their ivory." Another example from the article was, "An animal elephant's tusks have become bling for consumers who have  no idea or simply don't care that it was obtained by inflicting terror, horrendor pain and death on thinking, feeling, self-aware beings. My last exmaple from the passage is, "We protect those in harm's way . We need to show this  compassion to forest elephants, giving them space to roam and protection danger."

I think that these people who is killing these elephants need to stop because the elephants are decreasing. I also think its wrong for these people to kill the elephants for their task but then again I know they need the money to take care of their families. I think if they need money that bad I'm sure they can make it some other way besides killing the elephants or any other animal. I think its really wrong for these hunters to kill these animals because when they are killing them, they are killing one of the baby elephant mom or dad and its sad because that baby depends on their parent. I feel if the situation was the other way around and the animal was the killer and the killer was the animal they would see how wrong and evil it is to just kill for a couple of dollars and the next time they would think twice before they kill another elephant.

As I was sitting here I started to have some questions about this situation thats happening. Will a law be pass after the elephants decrease to a pacific number stating that hunters can no longer hunt them? Do these hunters find what they doing is wrong? Will they ever stop hunting the elephants? What will happen if the hunters kill all the elephants will they be fined?